> If you actually believed what you wrote, you wouldn't have included a "/shudder" at the end. In fact, you believe that Shakespeare is better than Dan Brown to

> If you actually believed what you wrote, you wouldn't have included a "/shudder" at the end. In fact, you believe that Shakespeare is better than Dan Brown to the point that disagreement makes you uncomfortable. That's a judgement of taste. Yes, but it's subjective. The idea that Dan Brown could be considered a better writer than Shakespeare is horrifying to me. The idea that people would put pineapple on a pizza is sacreligious to me. That someone actually likes Nickelbacks music is borderline offensive to me. Unless you can objectively quantify why x is better than y, that is subjective. > there is no getting away from the fact that normativity is a necessary condition of judgments of taste or beauty. Even if you could agree to an evaluative standard for art, you still cannot objectively measure it. Just because a majority of people agree on something, does not make it so.